{"id":1619002,"date":"2022-08-22T12:38:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T16:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1619002"},"modified":"2022-08-22T12:38:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T16:38:48","slug":"supporters-rally-for-author-salman-rushdie-in-n-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supporters-rally-for-author-salman-rushdie-in-n-y\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporters rally for author Salman Rushdie in N.Y."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupporters-rally-for-author-salman-rushdie-in-n-y%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1619002&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2740245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2740245\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2740245\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/RUSH.jpg\" alt=\"Author Salman Rushdie appears at a signing for his book \" Home \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2740245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Salman Rushdie appears at a signing for his book \u201cHome\u201d in London on June 6, 2017. Rushdie was attacked while giving a lecture in western New York. (Grant Pollard\/AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 9:24 AM PT \u2013 Monday, August 22, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>Hundreds rally in New York in support of assaulted writer Salman Rushdie. Friends and members of the literary community gathered Friday at the New York Public Library to speak and show solidarity for Rushdie.<\/p>\n<p>The rally came one week after the writer was attacked on stage during an event in the state. The writer is getting treated for stab wounds in a Pennsylvania hospital. Literary figures took turns reading Rushdie\u2019s works aloud to supporters.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8Writers gather in support of Salman Rushdie: Hundreds gathered in front of the New York Public Library to hear writers speak out in solidarity with the acclaimed novelist Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed at an appearance in New York state. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OMdzA3VXJA\">pic.twitter.com\/OMdzA3VXJA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 worldnews24u (@worldnews24u) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/worldnews24u\/status\/1561042383432712192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rushdie has received threats ever since Iran\u2019s former leader issued a bounty for his death in 1989 over his book \u201cThe Satanic Verses,\u201d which some Muslims consider \u201cblasphemous.\u201d The suspect in the attack is being held without bail on attempted murder and assault charges.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hadi Matar, accused of stabbing \u2018The Satanic Verses\u2019 novelist Salman Rushdie in western New York pleaded not guilty to second-degree attempted murder and assault charges and was held without bail <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bNAMhclST3\">https:\/\/t.co\/bNAMhclST3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1zX4m0X3vp\">pic.twitter.com\/1zX4m0X3vp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reuters (@Reuters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reuters\/status\/1560493007907995649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/was-the-conspiracy-to-block-reporting-on-hunter-laptop-necessary-to-stop-trump\/\">Was The \u2018Conspiracy\u2019 To Block Reporting On Hunter Laptop Necessary To Stop Trump?<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Salman Rushdie appears at a signing for his book \u201cHome\u201d in London<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}